Luka Rocco Magnotta, the prime suspect in the killing and dismemberment of Montreal student Lin Jun, is on his way back to Canada. Magnotta flew out of Berlin Monday morning aboard a Canadian Air Force jet, in the custody of officers from the Montreal police force.

They met as strangers for a threesome in a Toronto apartment, and Luka Magnotta took a liking to the transgendered girl his same age - so much so that the other guy stormed out, said he was going for a pack of smokes and never returned.

The Luka Magnotta murder case shows some startling similarities to plot elements in the psychosexual 1992 film Basic Instinct — just the latest example of what appears to be movie violence crossing over into the real world.

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